On 7/12/07, Dell Sala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Check out http://picnik.com/ This is a surprisingly powerful and easy-to-use online image editor. All implemented in flash. Basic accounts are free.
Too cute for words. But it doesn't do anything about resizing/resampling pictures before uploading. Steve Francia mentioned Flash as a platform that has access to local files, but I can't think offhand of how you'd resize images using actionscript--otherwise everyone would be doing it by now. But maybe... On client education front, if you are lucky enough to have clients with Macs, you just need to teach them about Cmd-Shift-4, which gives you crosshairs for taking a screenshot. Open a large image in Preview.app, scale it onscreen, and then Cmd-Shift-4 to produce a smallish png (I know, not jpeg) that can be uploaded in a reasonable amount of time.
One cool feature is that you can email the image somewhere after you've finished editing it. I've been toying with the idea of implementing a CMS tool that supports image uploads through a pop account. The idea would be, after you've finished editing your image in picnic, you would email it to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and the CMS application would automatically check that mailbox for new images. Probably some security issues with this though... any thoughts?
Yeah, how do you keep someone from publishing personal enhancement product ads to your CMS? It should be trivially easy to fake an email from picnik, or for that matter to just use picnik to spam in the first place. -- Chris Snyder http://chxo.com/ _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
